Wednesday, December 17, 2008

There is a new build available, Wenatchee 2008-12-16, with the following:

New Features:

A new menu, containing the most recently used commands, has been added to the drawing window context menu. The Repeat Last Command menu choice on the context menu now contains a menu of the most recent commands. Selecting the Repeat Last Command choice itself still executes the very last command.

Import and Export 3DS have been added.

The ExtractRenderMesh command has been added.

Changes:

Text drawing has been rewritten and is much faster. This greatly improves Rhino's responsiveness when drawings (such as typical AutoCAD files) contain a lot of text.

The bounding box for a text object now contains all the text. Clicking on any part of a text object selects the object.

The Heightfield command does not work and has been disabled.

Bug fixes:

The Flip / KeepAll dialog that is part of the Wirecut command now works correctly.

The common menu choices File>Save, File>SaveAs, Edit>Copy, Edit>Cut, Edit>Paste, Edit>Delete had previously been implemented in a non-standard way. This prevented Cut / Copy / Paste from working in some dialogs. This may also be the reason some poorly written haxies crashed Rhino. These menu choices are now implemented using standard OS X techniques and may improve stability.

Selecting a grouped set of objects with a left to right window selection now works.

The Edit Layer dialog now correctly modifies the selected layer.

Collapsing deeply nested layers in the layers dialog will no longer crash Rhino.

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